Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary

Steve Miller Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000GFRDN6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,765 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Space Intro

2. Fly Like An Eagle

3. Wild Mountain Honey

4. Serenade

5. Dance, Dance, Dance

6. Mercury Blues

7. Take the Money and Run

8. Rock 'N Me

9. You Send Me

10. Blue Odyssey

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Swingtown - DVD

2. Fine True Love - DVD

3. Abracadabra - DVD

4. Dance Dance Dance - DVD

5. Wild Mountain Honey - DVD

6. Nature Boy - DVD

7. Mercury Blues - DVD

8. The Stake - DVD

9. shu ba da du ma ma ma ma - DVD

10. I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love-DVD

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This is the album that, in one eagle-sized swoop, propelled Steve Miller from a well-regarded but hardly widely known psychedelic San Francisco-based bluesman to a chart-topping, hit-single-generating pop star. Capitol Records, who helped sire that transition by keeping him on the label through years of lackluster sales, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the event with this classy expanded edition. Those with surround sound systems will enjoy a stunning 5.1 mix highlighting the space-rock tendencies that so effectively offset Fly Like an Eagle's crunchier singles. Also included in the CD/DVD set is a worthy and informative half-hour interview/documentary with Miller about the making of the project and his blues background, as well as a riveting two-hour live show from October 2005 that includes most (but not all) of the songs on the album. The concert allows Miller to explore his blues, jazz, and even world music tendencies with fiddler/harpist Carlos Reyes adding gypsy/Cajun overtones to "Dance, Dance, Dance" and "Abracadabra." George Thorogood brings his gruff presence to "Your Cast Ain't Nothing but Trash," and a relatively restrained but intense Joe Satriani joins on the last third, which includes a 20-minute version of the title track. Despite its dated synths and somewhat antiquated production, the album holds up remarkably well, primarily due to its excursions into Delta blues ("Sweet Maree"), folk-pop ("Wild Mountain Honey"), and soul (a lovely cover of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me"). Three nascent versions of songs such as "Take the Money and Run" (retrofitted to the chord changes of "The Joker") appear as bonus cuts. They show how the perfectionist Miller's tinkering helped craft them into radio-friendly hits that sound as catchy today as they did in 1976. --Hal Horowitz

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Product Description

30th Anniversary Special Limited Edition CD/DVD of The Steve Miller Band's landmark album. The CD is digitally remastered and includes 3 bonus tracks. The DVD features a terrific concert performance at San Francisco's Shoreline Amphitheater in 2005 with over two hours of music in 5.1 Surround Sound. Guest musicians include George Thorogood and Joe Satriani. The DVD also features a lengthy interview with Steve Miller, archive footage, never-before-seen photographs, and early demo recordings revealing the genesis of rock classics like Take the Money And Run, Rock 'n Me, and Fly Like an Eagle. In one special segment Steve Miller plugs in his Stratocaster to demonstrate how licks learned directly from the likes of T-Bone Walker, Les Paul and Chuck Berry influenced his own music and became some of modern rock's most recognizable riffs.

Customer Reviews

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great music ages well...., July 21, 2006

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Albert G. Smith Jr. (Daytona Beach, Fl USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary (Audio CD)

I was 18 when this album came out and since that high school to college transition is the time when music is a big part of your life, it was great hearing this again. Going through the usual "upgrades" in media over the years, say 8-track, to album, to maybe cassette and ultimately to CD made it expensive to keep buying the same music over and over. This means that a lot of people will be playing "greatest hits" CDs, since it is reckoned to be the most economic way to go for many. The problem is that some great music will never be played on the radio, and therefore never be included on a compilation. So when I hit play on this new disc set, it was refreshing that 30-year-old music can sound so "new". There are some fine songs on this album that you just never hear on "classic rock" radio.

On the technical side, incase it was not so clear (it wasn't to me), this set has two discs. The first is a standard stereo CD of the album with 3 additional tracks. The second disc is a DVD which has the same album (minus the three extra tracks) in 5.1 audio. I was worried that I needed a SACD player to hear the 5.1 rendering, but no, just a digitally interfaced DVD player and receiver. Besides the audio-only album, the DVD has a very interesting interview with Miller talking about the album, and delving a bit into his youth (he got guitar lessons from Les Paul and T-Bone Walker in his house as a pre-teen!) and how he evolved as a musician. There is a concert performance from 2005 rendered in 5.1 that can be considered a "best of" of Miller's work. For blues aficionados, he does a set of some blues standards that show off a part of Miller many might not be aware of... great stuff for guitar fans. The concert was never meant to be a DVD product (as stated in the included booklet insert), but was simply recorded from the screens at a concert by the audio techs. While it was included in the 30th anniversary set, it is not state of the art vidiography, but it is not bad.

You get a lot of things for the price of this set, 2 discs, 2 audio versions of the album, the interview and the concert. This is a great re-issue for those of us that remember the `70s music scene. If you are hearing Steve Miller only on radio or on a "best of" compilation these days, you will enjoy the lesser known tracks that make up the rest of the album. In terms of sound quality, you have never heard this music sound as good as it is presented here.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is RIDICULOUS! what a deal! CD bonus tracks PLUS DVD!!! WOW, July 19, 2006

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Richardson "Clarence" (Sunny California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary (Audio CD)

Okay..
I'm dating myself...but I remember "the Joker" and thinking Steve Miller was cool...but that album....didn't really do much for me....then "Fly like an Eagle" came out...and Kicked my BUTT! It was an amazing slice of guitar pop and the follow up "Book of Dreams" which was recorded at the same time....wow...Steve was on a once in a lifetime roll!
30 years later...we are offered a fabulous sounding remastered CD with a few bonus tracks...which is great...
NOW ..the DVD is off the hook! A 2 hour concert....that's right..all the old chestnuts...surprise guests ...some cool blues jamming...WOW...and on top of that a "making of" portion of the DVD which is as good as the CLASSIC ALBUM series..with STeve talking about the history of the recording etc etc...just wonderful...and all for under $20!!

Trust me...if you have the CD and you're wondering if you should spring for the "30th Anniversary" edition...DO IT!! I'm watching Steve pick away on his acoustic while discussing James Cotton and "Sweet Marie"...how cool!!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HIDDEN GEM ???, May 11, 2009

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Mike Zlotnicki "Obsessive Collector" (Nashville, Tennessee,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FLY LIKE AND EAGLE:30TH ANNIVERSARY (Audio CD)

I rejected the Dts DVD Audio of this after reading several customer complaints of the exclusion of Space Intro,and the single version of Fly Like An Eagle being used...so I bought this instead. MAN ! What a great surprise THIS was !!! May be the BEST surround mix I have,plus the live concert footage, and CD as a 2nd disc, with 3 bonus tracks, and book !?!?
Yeah, THIS is the way to go !!!